Lorae'tyr
Lorae'tyr is one of a number of valences from which demons may originate. Demons from Lorae'tyr may be summoned into Elanthia either by sorcerers with knowledge of Minor Summoning (725) or other powerful entities such as GM characters.
Lorae'tyr is a humid, swampy realm, full of vegetation. It's various environments include bogs, forests, and plains. Its vegetation is not entirely alien, many plants even bearing extreme similarities to those of which could be found in Elanthia. But the plants in Lorae'tyr are much more vibrant and dark in color, and more pointed and sharp in shape. A yellowy hue colors the sky and air everywhere in the valence, only offset by the array of colors portrayed by the igaesha which inhabit the skies of Lorae'tyr.
One of the most outstanding features of Lorae'tyr is its timeshifting. The balance of time in this valence lacks uniformity, or in other words, time changes at different speeds in different locations, and these speeds are subject to change at any time. A single field may age three hundred years in less than a minute, while other areas may slow to a crawl while the rest of the world passes them by. Because of this, there is very little permanence within Lorae'tyr. Due to these shifts in time, Faendryl sorcerers would disappear for decades, only to return, having only spent minutes in the valence. Because of this danger, the Faendryl Patriarch Unsenis Ignaas had travel there outlawed, and the valence was sealed with a magical barrier called Shieltine's Ward. This ward not only makes travel to Lorae'tyr extremely difficult, it allows the Basilica to monitor travel to and from the valence.
Lorae'tyr is home to at least four known demon archetypes, including the igaesha, the verlok, the grantris, and the abyran. The abyran is further divided into two types, abyran'a and abyran'sa. While the others seem to pay no heed to the timeshifting qualities of their home, the abyran seem to have recognized this issue and have taken measures to deal with it.
The igaesha and the grantris do not seem to have any sort of community or society, although the igaesha often tend to float through the skies in clusters. The verlok, on the otherhand, tend to inhabit large piles of metal in communities, living together peacefully. The abyran have a much more complex society, even having divided into various castes. These are what differentiate the two types of abyran, the abyran'sa being a priestly class. The abyran species as a whole seems to worship snakes and serpants religiously, though the basis and reasoning for these religious beliefs are unknown.